2010 Dennis Kickout

THANKS to all the members of the committee who made last nights Kickout an OUTSTANDING EVENT. You guys did a great job on the program, it was right on and really funny. The food was wonderful and the outside setting was great. A VERY SPECIAL THANKS to Bill and Shirley McDonald for opening up their lovely home for our event.

F. Frosty Gelbke
Assistant Treasurer

PS - I think our incoming President, Wayne Hose missed his calling, he should be in the theater. The mustache looked great!!

Glad you liked it Frosty!

Past President Tom Biglione's supreme organizational skills, (sticky outline pads hanging from his living room ceiling), and endless supply of wine, led our all-star cast with a stellar performance, even though he started on page 3!, nonetheless, laughs ensued from the Munchkins "We Welcome you to Dennisland", The "No One Suspects' the Short One" T-Shirt,to Dennis's late arrival to the meeting (Chris filling in and Wayne Hose as Dennis), syringes sticking out everywhere...

Oh great, now everyone is face booking and emailing comments of the night!!! Here are some of them:

From Past President Tom Biglione:
Congratulations to you all on an outstanding performance. You were great!

Especially, thank you Chris for the great sound system and locating the micro phone just right on the lectern. ( Now, if you could only have flagged my script pages for me……)

Marion, your accent was so authentic. Wish we could have gotten you more lines. Maybe a better connected agent could get you more lines…….

Theresa, it’s hard to say which was funnier, your teeth and or the alter ego on your shoulder. You did a great job

crowning Dennis—good photo op!

Jay, did you get all your hypodermic needles back? Great job of liberally sprinkling them throughout the set and Wayne, thanks for keeping things on track from the wings and helping Mom to her chair. That was a nice touch!

It was a pleasure working with all of you. Thank you for everything you did to help send off Dennis in high form.

Bill, thank you to you and Shirley for graciously lending your home for the evening. The setting was beautiful; it was a wonderful night.

I began a small file with Wayne’s name on it today……….I wonder who we could get to play Wayne?

Brett Jolley to Theresa Martinez-Shapiro: As someone who was raised in Amador County I took great offense at

your portrayal of a stereotypical Jackson-dweller. I, for one, always removed my bandana prior to a doctor's appt and never once allowed my teeth to fall out during a meeting. If anything, you seemed to capture the essence of someone from Hilmar... (that's right, Lee, I said Hilmar). You guys did a great program.

for the record us hilmarians use bandanas only when milking cows!...cause u know jolley..."where i come froommmm...."

And, thank you Tom - great job!

I say ??? as Wayne next year - I already planted the seed with him yesterday.

Jim

Great job Tom. My goal for the year is to give Dennis as little ammunition as possible.

Wayne

This worked very well, because you began the process last summer. Good leadership. Lots of time to think about it as the year went along, and not have to just try to recall the things that are fodder for lampooning. I had fun watching the audience react to everything. I think people come planning to have fun but have a sort of ho-hum attitude about the skit. You all cured that notion.

Time to get Dennis some ideas so he doesn't put off the planning until May 2011.

If you are bland, we'll capitalize on that. We'll bore them into laughter. Better to just go for it and let the chips fall.

Plus, I think I have ammunition from when you were about 13-16 years old. Want to use that instead of your actual Rotary year?...